President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev singed bill on making amendments and additions to law of Kazakhstan on state regulation of production and sale of ethyl alcohol and alcoholic beverages, the President's press service reported June 18. The bill aims to restrict place and time for sale of alcoholic beverages in Kazakhstan. The bill bans the sale of alcoholic beverages everywhere except for restaurants, cafes and bars, from 9pm till 12 am 7 days a week. This change applies only to alcoholic beverages the alcohol proof of which is above 30. The bill also proposes to expand the list of places where the sale of alcohol is prohibited. The alcohol sale will be banned near schools, buildings of education and health sphere, sports and recreation centers, sports stadiums, and gas stations.

President Nursultan Nazarbayev appointed well-known and respected Toleubek Alpiyev as new director of The Astana Opera State Theatre of Opera and Ballet.

Alpiyev is a graduate of the Almaty and Moscow conservatories and was a violinist in a number of orchestras in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. He has also worked as managing director of the tour and concert association Kazakhconcert, director of the Zhambyl State Philharmonic, deputy chairman of Kazakhstan’s State Committee on Culture, and the nation’s Deputy Minister of Culture.

Since 2000, Alpiyev served as director of newly opened National Theatre of Opera and Ballet named after Kulyash Baiseitova in Astana, where he quickly established the theatre’s creative groups and conducted significant organisational work in the first season. Awarded by the Kurmet and Parasat orders, since 2013 Alpiyev served as deputy director of Astana Opera.

Minister of Culture and Sports Arystan Mukhamediuly introduced the new director to the theatre company on Nov. 14. The minister thanked the opera’s first director Tolegen Mukhamedzhanov for his excellent work in launching what is meant to be a world-class artistic company based in the Kazakh capital. Mukhamedzhanov said he was proud of being part of the opera’s early history and thankful to President Nazarbayev for trusting him with the mission as well as respecting his desire to take a break to pursue his own creative projects.

INC News, 18/11/2014-via Ak Zhaik

A depressed mother has been sentenced to a hospital order for smothering her three young disabled children to death. Tania Clarence, who admitted the manslaughter by diminished responsibility of Olivia, four, and three-year-olds Ben and Max at their home in New Malden, southwest London, over the Easter holidays will not be released until she has recovered from her mental illness. Mrs Clarence was sentenced at the Old Bailey, where she was flanked in the dock by her solicitor, who was allowed to remain beside her, and two medical professionals. She spoke only once to confirm her name. Imposing the order as her husband, Gary, looked on, Judge Mr Justice Sweeney said: "The evidence of your diminished responsibility is clear and convincing.

The strain of bird flu found on a Yorkshire duck farm is the same as that identified in the Netherlands and Germany. A cull of 6,000 ducks has now begun to try and rid the farm of the H5N8 strain. The Government says the risk to the public remains "very low". "As part of our robust action in response to the confirmed case of avian flu, the culling of 6,000 ducks on the affected farm in East Yorkshire is under way," a Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) spokesman said.

Police are failing to officially record one in five of the crimes reported to them, a damning report has revealed. An inspection of all 43 forces showed that 800,000 offences a year were not logged as crimes. Over a quarter of sexual offences were not recorded, while the figure for crimes of violence against the person was even higher at a third. Home Secretary Theresa May said: "This investigation ... confirms my concern that there have been utterly unacceptable failings in the way police forces have recorded crime." The report by Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary posed the question: "To what extent can police-recorded crime information be trusted?" The HMIC's Chief Inspector, Tom Winsor, said: "Failure to properly record crime is indefensible. This is not about numbers and dry statistics; it's about victims and the protection of the public. Victims of crime are being let down."

Charles Manson has obtained a marriage licence to tie the knot with a 26-year-old woman who visits him in prison. It was not immediately clear if the 80-year-old cult leader had set an exact date to marry Afton Elaine Burton, who runs a number of websites claiming he is innocent. A copy of the marriage licence, issued on 7 November, was seen by the AP news agency on Monday. Ms Burton moved to Corcoran, California, nine years ago to be near Manson, who was convicted in the notorious murders of seven people, including pregnant actress Sharon Tate. In an interview last year with Rolling Stone magazine, Ms Burton said she planned to marry Manson.

FIFA has has lodged a criminal complaint with the Swiss attorney general over "possible misconduct of individual persons". A FIFA report into the bidding process for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups found any violations of the governing body's rules by the victorious nations - Qatar and Russia - were "of very limited scope". However, it did criticise England for its close relationship with Jack Warner, the disgraced former FIFA vice president.

In posting copy of the page of the magazine "The Holland Times", where it is referred to as the Agreement between the Netherlands and Kazakhstan is ever more closely, both from a commercial point of view that government, Nanda Jagusiak quotes in this article thinking of Ambassador the Asian country Mainura Murzamadiyeva. Among the many things mentioned by the Ambassador of the Asian country in the developing world, fast compared to many others, appears a quote that reflects what we have always said in the past: If for Kazakhstan we are the Eldorado, they are even more for us. For years, we strive to make it clear to ordinary people like Holland and Kazakhstan may, by mutual agreement, to build an economic and commercial axis that can unite the two sides of the planet in a union by advancing in better their peoples. No trace of doubt was a very nice gesture, the Netherlands, to devote to Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev a tulip, and still devote a central square of the city of Rotterdam to the city that will host the Expo 2017, Astana. But even more beautiful and felt it would be in the future, a complete commercial union between the two countries, opening up to tourism than spectacular areas of Asia, still virgins to mass tourism, the improvement of technology partnerships and the facilitation of their young people to come in Netherlands to prepare their future in their country of origin.

Let us therefore welcome those who come to us in peace to exchange operational and constructive exchange of lifestyles.